Ma Zhong was so ruthless, and the senior cadres began to be passive.

Gao Gan is Yuan Shao's nephew, and he is the son of the Gao family of Chen Liu, who thinks he is a nobleman of the family and a famous general under Yuan Shao.

Gao Gan's horse is a descendant of the Dawan horse in the Western Regions, and Ma Zhong's horse is a Hequ horse, when Gao Gan turned his horse to escape, Ma Zhong couldn't catch up, and Gao Gan was about to escape from the encirclement of the Wei army.

There was a loud bang, and the dragon tooth knife in Gao Gan's hand was smashed into the dust by the sudden mountain opening axe.

The souls of the high-ranking cadres are all rising, and when they look closely, a general is carrying a huge axe to open the mountain, and he sees that the general is nine feet tall, with a waist of twelve girths, and his lips are very large and long, like sausages, and his eyes are big and wide, like phoenix eyes, and his appearance is very strange, so he screamed: "Who are you?!" ”

The general said angrily: "I am the unparalleled general Pan Long (resurrected Pan Feng) under the command of the Duke of Wen, and I am also a high-ranking horseman, so I don't want to get off the horse and surrender quickly!" ”

Gao Gan also wanted to turn his horse and escape, but the retreat route had been blocked by Ma Zhong, and there were also Wei soldiers on the left and right sides to block it.

Just when Gao Gan was panicking, Pan Feng raised the big axe and slapped it lightly, and smashed Gao Gan off the horse.

The soldiers of the Wei army on the left and right galloped over and tied Gao Gan firmly.

Ma Zhong looked at Pan Feng, who had a simple face, and infinite envy and jealousy welled up in his heart, this guy's luck is really good, Guo Yuan and Gao Gan were captured by him, this kind of shit luck is still woody, and it also makes my old horse a little wet.

After capturing Gao Gan, Dian Wei, Ma Zhong and other Wei cavalry generals coerced Gao Gan to recruit those Yuan cavalry.

Those Yuan cavalry originally wanted to resist stubbornly, but the valley was narrow, and the power of the cavalry could not be exerted at all, and the high cadres had been captured, the general situation had been decided, and the situation was stronger than people, except for a few diehards, most of the Yuan cavalry did not want to die in vain, so they all rolled their saddles and fell off their horses, discarded their weapons, and fell to the ground to accept the reorganization of the Wei army.

The infantry of the Yuan army in the valley, as soon as they were ambushed, they couldn't see how many Wei troops were ambushed on the slopes on both sides, because the soldiers of the Wei army were wearing grass rings, and the armor and robes on their bodies were grass green, which was mixed with the pine and cypress all over the mountain, making people feel that there were enemy troops all over the mountain, especially after Xu Huang's voice, more than 10,000 central soldiers shouted in unison: "They are all Han people, why kill each other!" Disarm and don't kill, surrender is rewarded! Return to the center, glory for generations! ”

Loud shouts circled in the valley, and the echo strengthened the momentum of these shouts, making the Yuan soldiers below feel that the Wei army had used forty or fifty thousand men to ambush them.

As soon as they were ambushed, those Yuan infantry were frightened, some fled in the direction they came from, saying that they wanted to retreat, and some rushed in the direction of going, saying that the way had been blocked and they wanted to kill a bloody way to escape, because the command of the senior cadres was not effective, these Yuan infantry became more and more chaotic.

Under the command of officers at all levels, the archers of the infantry of the Yuan army slowly gathered together, stretched out their bows and arrows, and fired back, but they stood at the bottom of the valley and shot at the high slopes, always blocked by the pine and cypress on the hillside, or by the wooden shields in the hands of the sword and shield soldiers in front of the Wei archers, which did not pose any threat to the Wei archers at all, but they were killed and wounded.

There are only more than 3,000 archers among the 20,000 infantry under the command of Gao Gan, these archers are not wearing heavy armor because they have to carry a bow and a quiver, but they are wearing leather armor, and the 4,000 archers of the Wei army first greeted the more than 3,000 Yuan army archers in the first few rounds of arrow rain, and after a few rounds of arrow rain, no one dared to stand there anymore, and they all learned from those soldiers and oil, lying on the ground and pretending to be dead.

Lacking the support of the archers' air strikes, the infantry of the Yuan army, who were not in a hurry to flee for their lives and had some loyalty to Yuan Shao, had to climb the hillside and catch up to confront the Wei infantry.

At this moment, many large and small stones rolled down from the hillside, rushed down to these Yuan soldiers who climbed to the top of the mountain, and killed one or two thousand people on the spot.

A small number of Yuan soldiers who climbed up and still had the strength to fight, and were lucky enough to avoid the momentum of rolling down the mountain, were encountering the Wei spearmen who were eyeing them.

The spearmen first drew a few javelins from behind.

Those javelins were all hard jujube wood poles with sharp iron spear heads, all only four feet long, and they were thrown out by the astonishing strength of these spearmen, and they could penetrate the armor of a Yuan soldier at a time, and penetrate several Yuan soldiers crowded in front and behind, just like stringing a few frogs with an iron hammer.

Wei Yan realized that "three knives are not as good as one arrow, and three arrows are not as good as one gun", so in the Wei army's system, the number of sword and shield soldiers was reduced, and the number of spearmen was expanded, so that each spearman had two javelins on his back.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, only Ma Chao's corps could use javelins as weapons, and legend has it that one of the three heroes of Rome failed in the Great War, and retreated to the east and retreated to Xiliang, which affected the way Ma Chao and others fought in Xiliang.

Wei Yan adopted the javelin as a weapon, mainly considering that the javelin has three advantages compared with the bow and crossbow, one is due to its own heavy weight, although the muzzle velocity is slow, but when thrown at close range, the accuracy and power should not be underestimated. In particular, the psychological shock caused to the enemy is great; Second, because of its heavy weight, if it hits the enemy's shield, it will cause the enemy's movement to be inconvenient, thus hindering the battle, and if the shield is thrown away, it will fall into a situation of lack of protection; Third, the cost and consumption of man-hours are lower than that of bows and crossbows, which are more convenient to use and easier to train, and do not require professional training like bows and crossbows, and the iron head of the javelin is very thin, and it will bend rapidly while being able to penetrate the enemy's armor, which strengthens the killing effect and avoids the enemy from throwing it back.

Most importantly, the javelin makes up for the blind spot of short-range attacks, and when the enemy is close, or when the enemy is already entangled with our army, and our archers are no longer convenient to shoot, the spearmen can throw javelins to defeat the enemy.

Because of Wei Yan's consideration, the order of attack of the Wei army became thunderbolt chariot soldiers, crossbow soldiers, infantry archers, cavalry, spearmen, and sword and shield soldiers, all of which were determined according to the distance of the attack.

Next to the large number of stationary crossbowmen, there are also hundreds of crossbowmen, who move according to the movement of the enemy's middle and high-ranking generals, and shoot the enemy's middle and high-ranking generals when they find the opportunity.

This team is the elite unit in the long-range attack army, Wei Yan named it the sniper team according to their behavioral characteristics, and each division has only one sniper team, all of which are elites in archers and crossbowmen, and are responsible for sniping enemy leaders.